Who said “Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party,…”?

“All words are pegs to hang ideas upon.”

“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”

“The words of the world want to make sentences.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

“In politics the middle way is none at all.”

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.”

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”